Karczew

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KARCZEW

Province: Mazowsze
County: Otwock

Official blazon
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Origin/meaning

The arms were officially adopted on June 23, 1768.

The lamb is taken from the arms of the Junosza family clan, to which the writer Franciszek Bieliński belonged, to whom the town at the time belonged and who granted the arms.

The arms as shown in 1963

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